Crime scene: death in space

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Death in space
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SWF
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 350 ( List )
First broadcast January 12, 1997 on Das Erste
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Director Thomas Bohn
script Thomas Bohn
production Dietrich Mack
music Hans Franek
camera Immo Rentz ,
Christoph Feller
cut Gudrun Bohl
occupation

Death in Space is the 350th episode of the crime scene and the eleventh episode with Ludwigshafen investigator Lena Odenthal and the second with investigator Mario Kopper . The episode is about the death of an author who is said to have had contact with aliens. The episode nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize was first broadcast on January 12, 1997 and was one of the last Tatort productions of the SWF before it merged with the SDR to form SWR .

action

A mysterious call comes in at the Ludwigshafen police station: An anonymous caller calling via satellite indicates that the ufologist and author Lunik van Deeling has been murdered. However, the police did not find a body. Van Deeling's publisher Axel von Saalfeld now claims that van Deeling traveled with aliens. Indeed, there is evidence of this thesis, but Commissioner Odenthal does not want to believe it.

Shortly thereafter, the body of a radio presenter is found who apparently had clues about the background to van Deeling's disappearance. Odenthal learns from her colleague Anke that van Deeling was firmly convinced that he had had contact with aliens. Finally, van Deeling's wife Renate also says that her husband has changed recently. She too believes that van Deeling had an encounter of the third kind.

Odenthal now has the feeling that she is only surrounded by crazy people, especially because the mysterious caller answers again several times and seems to have detailed knowledge about her and the state of the investigation. Together with colleagues, Lena Odenthal finds out that von Saalfeld had cheated on his bestselling author van Deeling out of money and that the radio presenter was about to expose this fraud. Thereupon Odenthal forges a plan and wants to beat van Deeling's publisher with his own means: She persuades Anke to rewrite an old interview with van Deeling so that he tells of his most recent excursion to extraterrestrial worlds. When this conversation was broadcast as an alleged live interview, Axel von Saalfeld got weak knees and was caught digging for van Deeling's body in the forest. He then confesses to the murders of van Deeling and the radio host, whom he killed both to cover up his betrayal of van Deeling.

In the last scene Odenthal is called at a taxi post. At the other end of the line is the anonymous caller who still does not want to reveal his identity. After the caller abruptly says goodbye to her, a water tower suddenly turns out to be a UFO and flies away.

background

The shooting took place mainly in the mountain forest settlement near Karlsruhe and the corresponding forest. Here is also the water tower, which later turns out to be a UFO. The planetarium shown in the film is located in Mannheim , because there is no planetarium in Ludwigshafen itself. The scenes on the radio program SWF3 were filmed in the original rooms of the station in Baden-Baden.

The missing writer was played by Dietmar Schönherr, who played the lead role in the German science fiction television series Raumpatrouille in 1965 .

Anke Engelke and Stefanie Tücking played themselves as radio presenters, which they were actually on SWF3 at the time.

Odenthal goes with Johanna to an appearance by Nina Hagen , who later appears in a nightmare to Odenthal. Hagen claims to have had an encounter of the third kind in the 1980s.

criticism

"Not only cosmic, but also funny."

- TV movie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: death in space . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ TV feature film : film review
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